The next Pepper Keane mystery is Bluetick Revenge. Whats that about?
A. It begins with Pepper’s theft of a bluetick coonhound from the leader of an outlaw biker gang. Karlynn Slade is the girlfriend of the gang’s leader, Thadeus Bugg. Karlynn decides to leave Bugg and steals a lot of cash from him when she does. The feds are pressuring Karlynn to testify against Bugg and then go into the witness protection program. She refuses to cooperate unless she can get her dog, a bluetick coonhound, from Bugg, so her attorney hires Pepper to steal the dog. Her attorney then asks Pepper to keep an eye on her. In the meantime, not knowing that Pepper is serving as Karlynn’s babysitter, Bugg hires Pepper to locate her. Pepper figures there is no harm in taking Bugg’s money, so he agrees, though he has no intention of doing any work for Bugg. Karlynn gets scared and gives Pepper the slip. Pepper must find her before the feds arrest her or Bugg kills her, and thus begins a multi-state journey. Then Bugg learns that Pepper was protecting Karlynn all along and puts a con
